Sky News' Ed Conway takes a closeup, forensic look at the number of people arriving in the UK over the past few years.

He finds that despite several public "misconceptions" about the level in the UK, the net migration figure has never been as high as now representing an historic high.

Despite assurances around the case for Brexit that numbers would fall, his analysis finds a strong surge in arrivals after transitional arrangements ended.

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